Join the Dots Together

A Theology of Climate Failure
2026-04-16 16:15 (Europe/London) | 27 University Square Belfast BT7 1PD, 27 University Square Belfast, BT7 1PD
This lecture – A Theology of Climate Failure – given by Dr Bethany Sollereder, University of Oxford, is organised by the Religious Studies Research Forum at Queen’s University Belfast, which forum exists to bring together academics at Queen’s and elsewhere with an interest in theology and religious studies. This is one of an annual series of research seminars open to the public and aimed at a public audience.

Webinar: What a Just Transition Really Means for Catholics
2026-04-16 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
What a Just Transition Really Means for Catholics: Planet, Profit, and Care for the Poor
Around the world, conversations about a “green transition” are accelerating. But an essential question remains: who will it serve—and who might be left behind? Three distinguished speakers will explore what a truly just transition looks like—from global policy and economic alternatives to the choices we make in our daily lives.

Global Citizenship Education (GCE) programme
2026-04-15 00:00 - 23:59 | Redburn Community Centre
Oxfam Ireland Global Citizenship Education (GCE) programme, funded by Irish Aid. The programme brings people together to explore some of today’s most pressing global justice issues, including economic and gender inequality, climate injustice, and how our world is deeply interconnected and to reflect on how even small actions can contribute to change.
As part of this, they’re running a 4‑part, in‑person workshop series across the island of Ireland. These sessions will take place at Redburn Community Centre in County Down.

QUB Arts and Sustainability Festival, Reach’26
2026-04-15 00:00 - 23:59
Queen’s University Belfast is delighted to announce the return of the Arts and Sustainability Festival, Reach’26.
This seven‑day programme brings together artists, researchers, students, and the wider public to explore how creativity can illuminate the urgent challenges of our changing planet.
Taking place across the University campus, the festival highlights the powerful connection between artistic practice and sustainability. Through film, image, music, talks, panels, creative writing, design, and visual art, Reach’26 offers multiple ways to engage with themes such as the climate emergency, biodiversity loss, and environmental resilience.
Developed in partnership with Queen’s Sustainability Team, the Naughton Gallery, Queen’s Film Theatre, the Seamus Heaney Centre, the MediaLab, and academic experts across the region, this year’s programme brings a rich diversity of perspectives to key climate issues. Art has the unique ability to translate complex scientific ideas into shared emotional experience, opening space for understanding, hope, and collective action.

Laudato Sì Animators Course begins
2026-04-15 00:00 - 23:59 | Online

A Rocha seminar on Trusts and Grant Funding
2026-04-14 17:00 - 18:30 | Online

Kumi Naidoo lecture with the SOAS Sustainable Policy Society
2026-04-13 16:00 - 17:00
Guest Lecture with Kumi Naidoo: “Why the World Needs a Fossil Fuel Treaty”

Public Inquiry on Mining in the Sperrins
2026-04-13 10:00 - 16:30 | Strule Centre, Omagh
Starting on April 13th at Strule Arts Centre, Omagh, the Planning Appeals Commission and Water Appeals Commission will hear from witnesses, including international experts. All welcome to support “Save our Sperrin”.

Northern Ireland Resources and Waste Management Strategy CONSULTATION CLOSES
2026-04-08 00:00 - 23:59
Rethinking Our Resources: Northern Ireland Resources and Waste Management Strategy
The draft Rethinking Our Resources: Northern Ireland Resources and Waste Management Strategy aims to integrate policy reforms, modern technology, and partnerships to ensure long-term sustainability and adaptability. It focuses on controlled wastes from households, commercial and industrial premises, and category 3 animal by-products, contributing to recycling targets and Net Zero commitments.
Respond here: https://consultations2.nidirect.gov.uk/daera/wms-consultation/

World Health Day
2026-04-07 00:00 - 23:59
On World Health Day 2026, WHO unites and mobilizes the world under the theme “Together for health. Stand with science.” celebrating the power of scientific collaboration to protect the health of people, animals, plants, and the planet. The year‑long campaign spotlights both scientific achievements and the multilateral cooperation needed to turn evidence into action.

International Day of Zero Waste
2026-03-30 00:00 - 23:59
Towards zero food waste
For this year’s International Day of Zero Waste, the focus is on food – what we eat, what we waste, and how we can move towards a more circular future.

What's it going to take?
2026-03-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Newman Building in University College Dublin
The event is open to the general public and the gathering will be livestreamed on the YouTube channel and posted on the site afterwards.

Speakers
Mary Evelyn Tucker Yale Forum on on Religion and Ecology
John Connell Farmer and writer
George Marshall Climate communications expert
Sadhbh O’Neill Journalist and Climate Campaigner
Lorna Gold CEO Laudato Si Global movement
Abaigail McNamara UCD Literary and Historical Society

Fuelling Injustice: Imagine! Festival of Ideas and Politics
2026-03-26 18:30 - 20:00 | Trocaire,60-64 Berry Street BT1 1FJ
This event will explore why we need urgent action to tackle climate justice obligations and responsibilities to vulnerable communities, and the role governments must play in a fair and funded fossil fuel phase out, from the perspective of both climate and human rights obligations.

Be prepared – civil food resilience in the face of change
2026-03-25 18:30 - 20:30 | Great Hall, Lanyon Building, University Road, Belfast, Select a State or Province:, BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
Join leading food policy expert Professor Tim Lang (author of Just in Case: 7 steps to narrow the UK civil food resilience gap) to explore civil food resilience — how citizens, communities, and governments can work together to build fair and sustainable systems that can withstand crisis.

World Meteorological Day
2026-03-23 00:00 - 23:59
Every 23 March, the World Meteorological Organization commemorates the coming into force of the Convention establishing the World Meteorological Organization on 23 March 1950.
It showcases the essential contribution of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services to the safety and wellbeing of society and is celebrated with activities around the world. The themes chosen for World Meteorological Day reflect topical weather, climate or water-related issues.
The theme for World Meteorological Day 2026 is “Observing Today, Protecting Tomorrow.”

World Water Day
2026-03-22 00:00 - 23:59
Where water flows, equality grows
The global water crisis affects everyone – but not equally.

International Day of Forests
2026-03-21 00:00 - 23:59
Forests and economies is the theme of the 2026 International Day of Forests, celebrating the essential roles of forests in driving economic prosperity.

World Day for Glaciers
2026-03-21 00:00 - 23:59
Glaciers are nature’s frozen sentinels, vast rivers of ice and snow that carve the Earth, silently bearing witness to the passage of time and the shifting rhythms of our planet.

Ramadan ends
2026-03-18 00:00 - 23:59

DRAFT NATURE RECOVERY STRATEGY CONSULTATION CLOSES
2026-03-18 00:00 - 23:59
Nature is in decline across the world and DAERA has a duty to publish a Biodiversity Strategy to help the conservation of biodiversity in Northern Ireland. This draft Nature Recovery Strategy (which is the Biodiversity Strategy required by legislation) sets out how we intend to meet international and national ambitions in Northern Ireland. The lifespan of this proposed strategy is to 2032.
Details on how to respond are provided here: https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/consultations/draft-nature-recovery-strategy.
The Consultation will run from 20 January 2026 until 18 March 2026.

Strength in Solidarity: Climate and Food Resilience
2026-03-12 19:00 - 20:00 | 3 Mayo Link, Belfast UK
front line of the impacts on our planet from climate change. The evening’s focus will be on how we can we build a urban growing infrastructure to best ensure we have food resilience. A panel discussion will be followed with questions and answers from our audience.

Teaching Outdoor Science – Rivers & Coasts
2026-03-11 10:00 - 16:00
This practical outdoor course focuses on using river and coastal environments as dynamic settings for teaching science through direct invest

Teaching Outdoor Science – Woodlands & Freshwater
2026-03-09 10:00 - 16:00
This hands-on course explores how woodland and freshwater environments can be used as rich, accessible settings for outdoor science.

International Day for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Awareness
2026-03-05 00:00 - 23:59
The International Day for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Awareness seeks to promote better awareness and understanding of disarmament issues among the public, especially young people.

Annual Trócaire Lecture 2026:
2026-03-03 19:00 - 20:00
“Care for Creation Amidst the Cries of War ~ Working for Peace in the Earth Community”
The event will take place in Renehan Hall at St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, on Tuesday, the 3rd of March 2026, at 7 p.m. GMT. It will also be live-streamed for those who cannot attend in person. Registration for this free event is required.
Please register:
(i) to attend in person at this link: https://forms.gle/QcH3ftZGz5728RDq7
(ii) to attend online at this link: https://trocaire-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5DMakWoeRNqBw4J3KC6IuQ
For further enquiries please contact maria.murphy@trocaire.org

Christian Ethics and Peacebuilding in the Age of AI and Autonomous Weapons Systems
2026-03-03 09:00 - 17:00 | Queens University Senate Room
This conference invites scholars, faith leaders, policymakers, and technologists to explore how Christian ethics can inform responses to AI-driven warfare, autonomous weapons systems, and efforts for peacebuilding. Through theological reflection, interdisciplinary engagement, and practical solutions, we seek to advance discourse on the role of faith-driven ethics in shaping global policy and peace efforts.

World Wildlife Day
2026-03-03 00:00 - 23:59
World Wildlife Day is an opportunity to celebrate the many beautiful and varied forms of wild fauna and flora, to raise awareness of their many benefits to reminds us of the urgent need to step up the fight against wildlife crime and human-induced reduction of species, which have wide-ranging economic, environmental and social impacts.

Whose (Environmental) Knowledge is it Anyway? - Workshop
2026-03-02 14:00 - 15:30 | Online
Join the Working Class Climate Alliance (WCCA) for a workshop about the democratisation of knowledge in climate politics!

World Seagrass Day
2026-03-01 00:00 - 23:59
Seagrasses have been declining globally since the 1930s, with the most recent census estimating that 7% of this key marine habitat is being lost worldwide per year. It was recently noted that 21% of seagrass species are categorized as Near Threatened, Vulnerable and Endangered Species under the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species .

Ballynature Day
2026-02-28 10:00 - 16:00 | Ballynure Presbyterian Church Halls, Main St, Ballynure, Ballyclare, BT39 9TU
A great day to Network with other Environmental groups; tables are spread over 2 halls with some Birds of Prey outside. Throughout the day there is a programme of talks in a hall upstairs. The event is suitable for children & families. Parking is available around the village, Jackson’s Butchery, Farm shop & restaurant has 2 large car parks, especially if you visit the shop before leaving
